Feeding Time Blog

Month: April 2017

I don’t know if you can relate, but I have to wear a bathing suit in a few short months. It’s bad enough that my skin is winter-pale and scaly but having a few kilograms extra of it laying about isn’t helping. I have 3 months until this body hits the beach and so I’ve started making small, but consistently better food choices and I’m hoping that with my new salad regime there’ll be a little bit less of me to offend the other holiday-makers.

As soon I decide that it’s time to cut-down on the pork scratchings and lunch-time …

I recently had the epiphany that for me, there’s no point in buying a recipe book from a restaurant chef. I don’t want to cook like a chef and when I’m at home I don’t want to eat like I’m at a restaurant. When a long, busy day comes to an end and I’m contemplating dinner, I don’t want make or eat fussy food. I want simple food, clean food; a meal that’s not too difficult to prepare. And so these days I much prefer the culinary insight of non-restaurant folk.

I don’t normally like to post about new food on the market without offering up some kind of recipe to get everyone inspired. But for this particular product, I genuinely feel that they are best enjoyed unadulterated. MOR are a new line of sausages that launched at Tesco this month and just quietly I am pretty excited about them. We love sausages in our house but I feel guilty when time I serve them because I know full-well that they are mostly pig lips, sawdust and fat – over 20% to be precise. It’s not what I’d call good food.…

Anyone local to Cookham knows and loves The Ferry. Perched beside the Thames on Ferry Lane, the riverside pub is large enough that you’ll get a table most nights and filled with a mixture of large tables, cosy nooks and snugs to accommodate all kinds of visitors from big parties to canoodling couples. We’ve been going with our kids for years and have always been happy with the menu and the service.

Recently though, The Ferry has had a make-over. While it looks very stylish and comes complete with a new menu, you can rest assured that it’s still …